This Win Is a First for Mears

Casey Mears took the lead on a restart with 28 laps to go, then cruised to victory in Saturday’s NASCAR Busch Series USG Durock 300 at Joliet, Ill.

Mears crossed the line 0.525 of a second ahead of Carl Edwards for his first Busch Series victory.

Edwards tried to chase down Mears in the closing laps, forcing Mears -- who was running low on gas and ran dry trying to drive his Dodge to Victory Lane -- to dive aggressively to the apron on the final lap to get around two lapped cars.

Jeff Burton finished third as Nextel Cup regulars swept the top 10 finishing spots. Burton will be on the pole for today’s Nextel Cup race.

Kevin Harvick finished fourth, followed by Matt Kenseth.

Edwards and Kurt Busch dominated the early stages of the race, but Busch was shuffled back in the pack on a late round of pit stops and couldn’t make his way through traffic. He finished sixth.

The race was slowed nine times for caution flags -- including on the first lap, when Denny Hamlin spun out and hit Kyle Busch and Martin Truex Jr.

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Ron Hornaday Jr. easily won his 29th NASCAR Craftsman Truck race, coming from 22nd to run away with the Built Ford Tough 225 at Kentucky Speedway in Sparta.

Hornaday, driving a Chevrolet, won for the second time this year. He led coming out of the eighth caution with eight laps to go, and was never seriously challenged.

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Justin Wilson posted a lap in the final moments of qualifying that was fast enough to win the pole position for today’s Champ Car World Series Molson Grand Prix of Toronto from A.J. Allmendinger.

Until the final 10 seconds of the 30-minute qualifying session, it looked as if Allmendinger had the pole wrapped up with a lap of 58.264 seconds (108.437 mph).

That’s when Wilson’s RuSport CDW Lola took over the top spot with a lap of 58.182 seconds (108.590), relegating Allmendinger to the outside of the front row.

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Jeff Ward and Doug Henry split victories in the AMA Supermoto Championship at Waterford Hills Road Race Course in Clarkston, Mich.

Ward, who leads the points standings, won the first race after Henry crashed his Yamaha. Henry won the second race after Ward fell off his Honda.